More INSTALL STAGE variables

[kk250040]

Good Work with all the existing stuff on Setup Factory, its a great tool with a great ease to work with. Thanks to IndigoRose

As we now have the various Install_Stage variables for the various stages being identified while installing, I felt if there could be more such variables to detect if a particular batch file is being executed, or if a backup is being executed.

1. INSTALL_STAGE_COPYING_FILES to detect if the setup is performing any copying of files or folders from setup.
2. an action to detect if a particular batch file is still executing.
3. an action to copy from a source to a destination folder on host (helps people customize to take backups of folders or files directly from setup)
4. an action to calculate the approximate time for copying a folder or a number of files depending on the host machine's data.

When users prefer to have their customized backups for their requirements, I guess it would be of much help if setup can identify if a copy is being executed from setup, or if a particular batch file is being executed. We can always do these with customized actions and some logic, but it would help many people and many more functionality to become easier with such variables or actions.

Please comment how relevant it is to have such variables to simplify certain functionality as Setup always does with many existing actions.

5. Also to be of much help, may be provide an Event say "OnBackup" for the customized backup, this helps user to define all his backup functionality under this event and maybe we can also provide a simple progress bar on the BackUp process automatically just like the screen for While_Installing (if not accurately though).

It just brings down many hard core coding to simplify to least definitions for their Backups.

Does anyone find any sense for such things to be provided. Please comment.

Thanks!

[kk250040]

Above all, I guess if there could be just an additional screen that shows a Juggler bar screen that just shows that some process is being carried out. The user can use it for various purposes like showing their execution of an external dependency module, or may be while taking backup or something similar.

This works out for people who cannot use status or progress bars may be because they are not sure how long their processes might take on individual host machines.

To be more clear, this screen need not show the status/time being taken by the porcess, but just shows that some process like backup or execution of some process is being carried out at the backend. Hope this helps!

Thanks!

[jcuster]

Is what you call a "Juggler bar screen" a screen that instead of the progress bar going from left to right, the progress bar zig zags back and forth?

I think the Progress screens need an On Ctrl Message for programming timers and such.

I like the idea of more variables and constants.

[kk250040]

Is what you call a "Juggler bar screen" a screen that instead of the progress bar going from left to right, the progress bar zig zags back and forth?

What I meant was just like an image similar to progress bar, but may be you will just have a bean/tablet running back and forth between left and right continuously till the execution of something is complete. That should imitate that some process is going on, instead of showing the amount of work done.
Clearly I want the progress bar to just show an on-going process of something rather than the amount/percentage of the process being done. Hope I could explain correctly what I meant.


Thank You!

[jassing]

Use a statusdlg screen and just keep going from 0 to 100% then back to 0 until the batch file is done.

[kk250040]

Hi Jassing,

Use a statusdlg screen and just keep going from 0 to 100% then back to 0 until the batch file is done.

yep this seems to be same like the default behaviour of the progress bar. The same scenario happens when we set the progress bar to run its status much faster than needed to complete.
But what you said still seems to show a wrong status as the bar, shows the status complete at times in middle of the process though it comes back to starting every time till the whole process completes.
So I still feel that there is a need for something like a juggler bar, a bean that keeps moving to and fro from one end to other end of the bar till the whole process is complete and shud jump to the next screen once the process is complete.


Thanks,
KK

[jassing]

since you want to show progress of a bat file; then you can't really do anything w/in suf/lua "as is" recode the bat file in lua script then you can put progress bar in that shows execution percentage as you want...

I'm out of ideas otherwise. good luck.

[Darryl]

Thanks for the suggestions.

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